DASHEWSKI, PINḤAS

DASHEWSKI, PINḤAS (1879–1934), Russian Zionist activist.
Dashewski came from an assimilated family in Korostyshev, Ukraine; his
father was an army doctor. He joined a Zionist Socialist student circle
in Kiev in
1902. After the kishinev pogrom Dashewski assaulted and wounded
the chief instigator, P. Krushevan , in St. Petersburg on
June 4 (17), 1903. He was sentenced to five years' hard labor but
was released in 1906. The incident, trial, and Dashewski's
appearance in court acted as a protest against the regime, and a
call for Jewish self-defense . In 1910 Dashewski visited
Ereẓ Israel. During the beilis case he took part in a
delegation of Russian Jews to the U.S. Dashewski, who was a
chemical engineer, worked in the Caucasus and Siberia. He remained
a Zionist after the 1917 Revolution and was eventually arrested
and died in prison.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Singer, Be-Reshit ha-Ẓiyyonut ha-Soẓyalistit (1957),
256–91; Biografiya… (Russ. and Yid., 1903), published by
Young Israel, London; YE, S.V.
(Moshe Mishkinsky)

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KRUSHEVAN, PAVOLAKI° — (1860–1909), Russian journalist who became notorious in connection with the kishinev pogroms of April 1903. Krushevan began to publish the newspaper Bessarabets in 1897 in Kishinev, the capital of the province of Bessarabia. Though at first… … Encyclopedia of Judaism